Viewing profile — dumbledoren

It doesnt matter what kind of tax they didnt pay. They SHOULD pay tax. Otherwise this makes it a loophole for private companies to dump research & development costs on the taxpayer…

> I could not find a reliable source Thousands of videos livestreamed on twitter, some by even the actual victims who die at the end of the video. If you havent been able to find a…

> I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest. It was always theft. Having been done in the past does not…

Right. Its not like recent statistics showed that the US was the place where most of the cyberattacks originate. And its not like both the US and UK are openly saying that they are…

Their emissions are the emissions of Western companies for whom they are doing manufacturing.

> Or can we not have them use that extra money to rent servers from OVH/Hetzner Or just use Hetzner for major performance at low cost... Their apis and stuff make it look like its …

Variants like k3 are not as complicated and problematic as k8.

Nah. They could have just overprovisioned to hell for much cheaper. Boxes at Hetzner cost up to 10 times less than equal level of AWS compute. Just overprovision for cheaper. You h…

Likely the best comment in the thread: Microsoft couldnt kill Linux. But AWS did it by adding itself as a layer on top of Linux and literally taking control of the web that Linux l…

Possible. However what is more likely is that a lot of long-time tech workers have vested stocks or investments in Amazon and they dont want the cash cow (AWS) to get hampered. And…

> AWS may be overcharging but it's a balancing act. Going on-prem (well, shared DC) will be cheaper but comes with requirements for either jack of all trades sysadmins or a bunch o…

The catch is that bare metal is SO cheap and performant that you can buy legions of it and have it lying around. And datacenters, their APIs and whatnot advanced so much that you c…

> when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ? Bigger question: When did people forget that doing that is much easier than AWS...

> British colonies universally benefited from the British empire Yeah, the 100-200 million Indians who were killed by the East India Company through famines after being forced to r…

He used 'money' for 'profits' apparently. Profitmaking is the problem. Money is just a vehicle. And you can abolish profit-making through an open-source world: Projects can get sta…

Google became a monopoly in search, advertising and various other things. It uses all of those to extract money from everyone, especially the advertisers with absolutely no account…

The real question is how the hell some circles were able to push such complexity onto mainstream tech and what will it take to prevent it from happening again.

> The way they store data in a key/value system really hurts the performance It doesnt, unless your site has a lot of post/product/whatever entries in the db and you are having you…

> I genuinely do not understand where how the idea of building a total surveillance police state, where all speech is monitored, can even as much as seriously be considered by an a…

Hard to understand why people are downvoting the parent. That may be a right wing dogwhistle, but also the entire corporate industry seems to be trying real hard to turn life on pl…

> A grand and shallow generalization In every single developed country leaving a child like that would cause everyone there to be prosecuted by law. I didnt hear any other country …

There is nothing nationalistic about it. I have lived in multiple countries, and in no country have I ever ! heard ! about a phenomenon like this one. In every country I lived, lea…

[flagged]

The Nordic countries act as if they were an extension of the Angloamerican culture for some reason. They sure would object to their data being used by China or Russia for example, …

> It used to be the case, now the majority of the people in high-income countries and the high earners of medium-income countries can globe trot, it is a massive increase. Except t…